Brain Quest Workbook: 3rd Grade

Brain Quest never misses! This workbook is fun, bright, and packed with skills practice that doesn’t feel boring. Great for keeping kids sharp during breaks or reinforcing what they’re learning in school. A must-have for 3rd grade families!

Thrilled to have tried this series; wish I'd found it sooner! My son and daughter started with these at the 2nd and 4th grade level. Now he's in the 3rd grade book and she's in the 5th grade book. Wish we'd started at the Pre-K level though! They are great. They are colorful, instructions are clear and the pages aren't overloaded with boring repetition. As a homeschooling mom in a state with very loose regulation, I feel good having my kids go through these books as a supplement and record of some of what we do. We do a TON of life-learning and hands-on activities, tons of art/music/theater and many field trips. I don't keep detailed records of our hands-on and life-learning because I'm not required to, and I don't feel like it'd be a good use of time. But I still like seeing these books completed as we finish them and I'm saving them to show the kids what they've accomplished. And as a reminder that we've got the basics covered well. We use Real Science 4 Kids and Trail Guide to Learning for science and social studies (covers some Language Arts and Science also) and we take a unit approach to those two, which means we don't work in them every single day. We use Teaching Textbooks Math daily, in addition to the math in these worktexts. I like being able to have the kids do Brain Quest in addition to our other activities and they typically enjoy BQ and find it fun. I do wish BQ would beef up the social studies and science sections of the books. They are the most fun and also the shortest. Then the kids run out of science and social studies and are left with tons of math, reading, spelling, etc. and it feels a little unbalanced. Other than that, these are perfect and I'll keep buying them. Currently hoping BQ might publish some beyond 6th grade. I'd buy them!!

I ordered this after seeing the fourth grade book in a local bookstore. My daughter is in 3rd grade, the store was out of that level, so I came to Amazon. I originally was interested mainly in the math section, as she has struggled in that area and, so far, it has really helped. The activities have been a good a match for her school curriculum: evens and odds, addition and subtraction with regrouping up to 3 digits, rounding, multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, measurement, time and money, and word problems. There are other one page and two page exercises thrown in (graphs and charts, lines, signs, etc.) that have been helpful, as well. We follow BrainQuest as she moves through her curriculum and it definitely helps. What has pleasantly surprised me is how great the other content areas of the book are. When she was struggling with alphabetical order and dictionary skills, the BQ Workbook had activities for her. When she had a test on common and proper nouns, the BQ Workbook had a page we could use as test review. When she needed more study on main ideas, topic sentences, and supporting details, the BQ Workbook had activities for us to use. When she was studying the human body or the US Constitution or animal habitats or maps ... this Workbook has not yet disappointed. The absolute best thing about this Workbook is that my child (age 8) *asks* to use it. She thinks it's fun. When she's "bored" either at home or in the car, she'll turn to this Workbook. I really cannot recommend this highly enough. (*Note: my pre-schooler also loves his Pre-K BQ Workbook!)

Very colorful inside, with color-coded sections. Although it does have a table of contents, the sections are not broken down any further. I had to take out a notebook to write everything down so that we can refer back to these pages later, as we study each skill in our lessons. Spelling and Vocabulary section has words sorted by usage such as plurals, prefixes, homophones, etc. It also reviews a few commonly misspelled words, using context clues to determine word meaning, and putting words in alphabetical order. It then goes over the basics of how to use a dictionary, and ends with having the student look up words in a dictionary and copying the word's definition. The Language Arts section is pretty impressive. It has at least a bit of everything. It even touches cursive writing via reading cursive. It doesn't go in depth, but it's a good review. The Reading section is fairly basic as well, but again includes a bit of everything. The writing section I appreciate more because it introduces where to start in writing, such as defining what it should be about, and how to expand upon that. It reviews English concepts and how they are used to improve writing, like using descritive words and writing a topic sentence. Then it goes over outlines via reviewing paragraph structure and sentence order. I appreciate the proofreading chart of marks used, and the writing checklist. Despite how much there is, it is still only reinforcing material. Similar content is found among the rest of the subject areas, meaning they each contain at least a bit of everything, except social studies and science, which is very minitial. I love how it separates each type of math onto separate pages; it makes it easier to jump to where reinforcement is needed most, but I wouldn't rely solely on this book for trouble areas. It's simply not enough. But it is good review as you go. I love how it introduces fractions and transitions from fractions to decimals. It then uses decimals to help solve money problems. Measurement units are also introduced. The bonus multiplication chart at the end is great! It barely goes over social studies as an after thought. Science at least has a page to a few different animal types and ideas. But these two subjects are not very comprehensive, probably because every school is different on what exactly they go over. In conclusion, I love this book as a review / reinforcement activity book. I plan on issuing pages of it as homework in my homeschooling plan. My child is excited to start it just by how it looks. That is encouraging. Glad I purchased this item.

Excellent condition

My daughter loved it.

Ma fille pd beaucoup de plaisir à apprendre l'anglais et en anglais avec cette collection. A coupler avec les fiches associées pour les nomades. On a commencé avec les bleus et venons de passer au vert, étape gratifiante...

I love all these books (I use them since the JK) and my daughter could always learn a lot with them! I can't wait to start the Brain Quest 3 next year! It arrived much before the expected date perfectly packed!

Delivered as expected